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| | Europe's parliament in the doldrums 427
This week's re-election of the European Parliament will have been a futile exercise unless the newly elected can find a role for themselves; the best bet will be to engineer the intergovernmental conference planned for 1996.
doi:10.1038/369427a0
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| | Is North Korea nuclear? 427
The rest of the world cannot let North Korea go nuclear, but needs guile to prevent it.
doi:10.1038/369427b0
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| | Charitable research 428
British charities will not, after all, have to vouch for the quality of what their dependent researchers publish.
doi:10.1038/369428a0
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| | Concern over 'invisible problem' of HIV blood in developing countries 429
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/369429a0
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| | New setback for India's nuclear programme 429
doi:10.1038/369429b0
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| | Doubts greet violence-research funding plea 430
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/369430a0
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| | ... as NIH tightens up on academic-industry deals 430
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/369430b0
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| | War of words over future of Berlin teaching hospitals 431
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/369431a0
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| | US unveils details of $750 million technology plan 431
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/369431b0
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| | Head of Soros fund rejects complaints over new grants 432
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/369432a0
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| | Energy and biotechnology top Euro-Parliament's agenda 432
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/369432b0
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| | US health agencies at odds over trial deaths 433
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/369433a0
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| | 'Irreproducible' team clones a rival 433
Joel Shurkin
doi:10.1038/369433b0
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| | Critic still lays blame for AIDS on lifestyle, not HIV 434
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/369434a0
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| | New rules on CERN membership 'essential' 434
doi:10.1038/369434b0
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| | Lay panel sought to give verdict on 'engineered' plants 434
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/369434c0
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| | Japan eyes plans for robot-built Moon base 435
Bob Johnstone
doi:10.1038/369435a0
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| | Sex discrimination among India's engineers confirmed 435
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/369435b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Clinical analysis in Egypt 436
Salah Abdalla
doi:10.1038/369436a0
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| | Leprosy vaccine 436
M. G. Deo
doi:10.1038/369436b0
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| | Meteoric fall 436
Mark Powlson
doi:10.1038/369436c0
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| | Gene safety 436
Dennis J. McCance
doi:10.1038/369436d0
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| | Pedant mavens 436
Sharon R. Seller
doi:10.1038/369436e0
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| | Cell-cycle regulation by numbers 437
A mathematical model of the cell cycle, of great interest in itself, may be a first step towards the much more ambitious models people will be building in the decades ahead.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/369437a0
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| | A clasped embrace 438
Dinshaw J. Patel
doi:10.1038/369438a0
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| | Wet chemistry 439
James T. Hynes
doi:10.1038/369439a0
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| | Life after transcription 440
Kimberly Carr
doi:10.1038/369440a0
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| | Reflections on a summer's night 441
Lindsay Matthews
doi:10.1038/369441a0
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| | Cascading electrons 442
Raphael Tsu
doi:10.1038/369442a0
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| | NF-AT comes under control 443
Alain Israel
doi:10.1038/369443a0
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| | A new job for the thalamus 444
Wolf Singer
doi:10.1038/369444a0
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| | Actors, spectators and control 445
David J. Tannor
doi:10.1038/369445a0
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| | Virtual assembly 446
David Jones
doi:10.1038/369446a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Single sweetness signal 447
P. A. S. Breslin, S. Kemp & G. K. Beauchamp
doi:10.1038/369447a0
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| | Climate effects on mountain plants 448
Georg Grabherr, Michael Gottfried & Harald Pauli
doi:10.1038/369448a0
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| | Scaling and brain connectivity 448
Martin W. Simmen, Geoffrey J. Goodhill & David J. Willshaw
doi:10.1038/369448b0
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| | Scaling and brain connectivity 449
Malcolm P. Young, Jack W. Scannell, Gully A. P. C. Burns & Colin Blakemore
doi:10.1038/369449a0
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| | Regional variation in fruitflies 450
Rama S. Singh & Larry R. Hale
doi:10.1038/369450a0
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| | Regional variation in fruitflies 450
David J. Begun & Charles F. Aquadro
doi:10.1038/369450b0
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| | A penchant for protists 451
Laurence D. Hurst reviews Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells: The Enigmatic Smile
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Betsey Dexter Dyer & Robert Alan Obar
doi:10.1038/369451a0
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| | The Shorter Science and Civilization in China 451
doi:10.1038/369451b0
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| | Is chemistry physics? 452
Kostas Gavroglu reviews From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry: Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800−1950
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Mary Joe Nye
doi:10.1038/369452a0
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| | Star shots 452
doi:10.1038/369452b0
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| | Against method? 453
Janet Sayers reviews A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein
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John Kerr
doi:10.1038/369453a0
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| | Processes and origins 453
J. R. L Allen reviews Geomorphology of Desert Environments
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Athol D. Abrahams & Anthony J. Parsons
doi:10.1038/369453b0
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| | From DNA to databases 454
Chris Rawlings reviews Guide to Human Genome Computing
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Martin J. Bishop, Annette M. Griffin & Hugh G. Griffin
doi:10.1038/369454a0
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| | Crystal structure of human chorionic gonadotropin 455
A. J. Lapthorn, D. C. Harris, A. Littlejohn, J. W. Lustbader, R. E. Canfield, K. J. Machin, F. J. Morgan & N. W. Isaacs
doi:10.1038/369455a0
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| | A possible fossil galaxy group 462
T. J. Ponman, D. J. Allan, L. R. Jones, M. Merrifield, I. M. McHardy, H. J. Lehto & G. A. Luppino
doi:10.1038/369462a0
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| | Scattering and absorption of surface electron waves in quantum corrals 464
E. J. Heller, M. F. Crommie, C. P. Lutz & D. M. Eigler
doi:10.1038/369464a0
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| | Conducting tin halides with a layered organic-based perovskite structure 467
D. B. Mitzi, C. A. Feild, W. T. A. Harrison & A. M. Guloy
doi:10.1038/369467a0
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| | Mechanism of the transition from fractal to dendritic growth of surface aggregates 469
Harald Brune, Christoph Romainczyk, Holger Röder & Klaus Kern
doi:10.1038/369469a0
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| | Femtosecond solvation dynamics of water 471
Ralph Jimenez, Graham R. Fleming, P. V. Kumar & M. Maroncelli
doi:10.1038/369471a0
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| | Seismic evidence for silicate melt atop the 410-km mantle discontinuity 474
J. Revenaugh & S. A. Sipkin
doi:10.1038/369474a0
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| | Burgess Shale-type fossils from a Lower Cambrian shallow-shelf sequence in northwestern Canada 477
Nicholas J. Butterfield
doi:10.1038/369477a0
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| | Feature-linked synchronization of thalamic relay cell firing induced by feedback from the visual cortex 479
Adam M. Sillito, Helen E. Jones, George L. Gerstein & David C. West
doi:10.1038/369479a0
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| | NMDA receptors and activity-dependent tuning of the receptive fields of spinal cord neurons 482
Gary R. Lewin, Edward Mckintosh & Stephen B. McMahon
doi:10.1038/369482a0
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| | Involvement of a calcineurin/ inhibitor-1 phosphatase cascade in hippocampal long-term depression 486
Rosel M. Mulkey, Shogo Endo, Shirish Shenolikar & Robert C. Malenka
doi:10.1038/369486a0
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| | Altered microtubule organization in small-calibre axons of mice lacking tau protein 488
A. Harada, K. Oguchi, S. Okabe, J. Kuno, S. Terada, T. Ohshima, R. Sato-Yoshitake, Y. Takei, T. Noda & N. Hirokawa
doi:10.1038/369488a0
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| | A universal nucleoside for use at ambiguous sites in DNA primers 492
R. Nichols, P. C. Andrews, P. Zhang & D. E. Bergstrom
doi:10.1038/369492a0
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| | The role of Rab3A in neurotransmitter release 493
Martin Geppert, Vadim Y. Bolshakov, Steven A. Siegelbaum, Kohji Takei, Pietro De Camilli, Robert E. Hammer & Thomas C. Südhof
doi:10.1038/369493a0
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| | NF-AT components define a family of transcription factors targeted in T-cell activation 497
Jeffrey P. Northrop, Steffan N. Ho, Lei Chen, Daryl J. Thomas, Luika A. Timmerman, Garry P. Nolan, Arie Admon & Gerald R. Crabtree
doi:10.1038/369497a0
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| | SH2 domain specificity and activity modified by a single residue 502
Luc E. M. Marengere, Zhou Songyang, Gerald D. Gish, Michael D. Schaller, J. Thomas Parsons, Michael J. Stern, Lewis C. Cantley & Tony Pawson
doi:10.1038/369502a0
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| | Allergy by mutation 506
The search for genetic factors that may predispose people to various allergies takes a promising turn with the publication of some incriminating evidence against the IgE receptor.
Kevin Davies
doi:10.1038/369506a0
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